Alexander: 7118 books

Relato corto de ficción histórica mezclada con misterio y suspense.Ideal para leer durante trayectos cortos en el transporte público o entre lecturas de textos más largos.Primeros párrafos:I – El nudoLa naturaleza que nos rodea, ha creado un mundo donde poder crecer...

At the peak of Rome’s might a dragon is born among eagles, an heir to a line both blessed and cursed by the Gods for ages. In Killing the Hydra, Lucius Metellus Anguis returns to North Africa, determined to investigate the death of his centurion and root out the treason that has infiltrated...

An ancient alien race bent on decimating humanity. An unlikely group of heroes caught in the turmoil of an invasion. One young man with extraordinary abilities forced to cope with his heritage. When baby Marc loses his mother from a shooting at a busy mall, he is placed into foster...

Azimuth. A world of floating cities & bottomless sky. Trouble is brewing in the Nezzu Strait. Brazak West and Ganzabar, old adversaries from the last war, are at each other’s throats. Stalking the skies between them is a seven-hundred-year-old warship, vastly more advanced than anything...

From the award-winning translators: the complete prose narratives of the most acclaimed Russian writer of the Romantic era and one of the world's greatest storytellers. The father of Russian literature, Pushkin is beloved not only for his poetry but also for his brilliant stories, which range...

Ivan Petrovich Belkin left behind a great number of manuscripts.... Most of them, as Ivan Petrovich told me, were true stories heard from various people. First published anonymously in 1830, Alexander Pushkin’s Tales of Belkin contains his first prose works. It is comprised of an introductory...

A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection   A young noblewoman elopes with the wrong man in a blizzard. An army officer waits years to exact revenge on a count for a dormitory insult. Following a disparaging toast, an undertaker vows to invite only his deceased customers to a party. A poor...

From award-winning author Elissa Brent Weissman comes a collection of quirky, smart, and vulnerable childhood works by some of today’s foremost children’s authors and illustrators—revealing young talent, the storytellers they would one day become, and the creativity they inspire today. Everyone’s...

"Has a many-sided appeal …. This stimulating book is one of the few that really deserve the over-worked term, a human document." — Publishers Weekly. In the first of his memoirs, the popular Indian Boyhood, Charles Alexander Eastman recounted his traditional upbringing among the Santee...

In 1883, railroad financier Henry Villard brought Portland and the Pacific Northwest their first transcontinental railroad. Earning a reputation for boldness on Wall Street, the war correspondent turned entrepreneur set out to establish Portland as a bourgeoning metropolis. To realize his vision,...

Ik ben geboren op 13 april 1944 in Posen, een oude Poolse stad die eeuwenlang Pozna werd genoemd. Maar toen ik er geboren werd, te midden van bombardementen die het einde der tijden leken aan te kondigen, was dit Posen een Duitse stad vanwaaruit Hitler-Duitsland zijn Heerestruppen naar de Sovjet-Unie...

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Expositor's Bible- The Epistles of St. John. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important...

A direct descendant of Jack the Ripper's last victim tells her ancestor's story Between August and November 1888, five women were murdered in Whitechapel, and for more than 100 years the murders have remained among one of the world's greatest unsolved crimes. Author Antonia Alexander is...

National Bestseller New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice | An Indie Next Pick A Best Book of the Year from NPR, Boston Globe, Buzzfeed, Esquire, San Francisco Chronicle,Time Out, Self, Jezebel, The Portland Mercury, Electric Literature, and Entropy Magazine **“It just sounds terrific....